Royalists (France)

Royalists were supporters of King Louis XVI of France and the House of Bourbon during the French Revolutionary Wars. The Royalists were primarily from the northern French countryside such as the Vendee and Normandy, and they fought as a rag-tag army from 1793 until 1815, with the restoration of King Louis XVIII.

History
With the Reign of Terror, conscription, and other revolutionary policies, the French Republic's new set of laws alienated many people, primarily from the Vendee region of northern France, but also from Lyon, Maine, and Brittany. Supporters of the imprisoned King Louis XVI of France rebelled and formed rag-tag armies that waged guerrilla warfare against the French Republic, resulting in the War in the Vendee and Chouannerie, both starting in 1793. Insurrection continued until 1815, when Louis XVIII of France took power from Napoleon with the aid of a coalition. However, resistance broke out again in 1830 against the Orleanists, and it ended in 1832.